Title | Acronym | Contact Person | Center | Aircraft | Type | Measurements | Measurement Range | Measurement Instrument Pointing | Measurement Frequency | Measurement Swath Width | Measurement Horizontal Resolution | Measurement Vertical Resolution | Measurement Wavelengths | Measurement Notes |
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Airborne 2-Channel Laser Infrared Absorption Spectrometer | ALIAS-II | Lance Christensen (PI) | JPL | Balloon | Spectrometer | N2O, CH4, CO, HCl, NO2 | Vertical profile
| Limb scanning
| 1 Hz
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Airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance | Air-LUSI | Kevin Turpie (PI) | UMBC | ER-2 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Lunar Spectral Irradiance | Other
| Upwards pointing but not directly upwards (angles: 265° - 275° from heading)
| 350 nm; 1050 nm | |||||
Airborne Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer | AirMISR | Dave Diner (PI) | JPL | ER-2 - AFRC | Camera, Spectrometer | Topography | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards), Downwards pointing but not directly downwards (angles: 70.5, 60, 45.6, 26.1)
| 11000 m (at 20 km)
| 27.5 m (at 20 km)
| 446 nm; 558 nm; 672 nm; 866 nm | |||
Airborne Ocean Color Imager | AOCI | James D. Jacobson Jr. (Mgr) | USRA | ER-2 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Imagery | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 50 m (at 19.8 km)
| 0.436-0.455 µm; 0.481-0.501 µm; 0.511-0.531 µm; 0.554-0.575 µm; 0.61-0.631 µm; 0.655-0.676 µm; 0.741-0.8 µm; 0.831-0.897 µm; 0.989-1.054 µm; 8.423-12.279 µm | ||||
Airborne Visible and InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer - 3 | AVIRIS-3 | Robert O. Green (PI) | JPL | B200 - Dynamic Aviation, G-III, G-V-JSC | Spectrometer | Radiance from the surface and atmosphere. | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 200 Hz
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Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer | AVIRIS-Classic | Robert O. Green (PI) | JPL | ER-2 - AFRC, Proteus, Twin Otter, WB-57 - JSC | Spectrometer | Imagery | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards), Cross-track scanning
| 12000 m (at 20 km)
| 20 m (at 20 km)
| 31 channels at 410-700 nm; 63 channels at 680-1270 nm; 63 channels at 1250-1860 nm; 63 channels at 1840-2450 nm | 9.4 nm bandwidth | ||
Automatic Meteor Tracker with Imager and Slit Spectrograph | AIM-IT | George Varros (PI) | NASA | DC-8 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Imagery | ||||||||
Autonomous Modular Sensor | AMS | James D. Jacobson Jr. (Mgr) | USRA | Altair, B200 - LARC, Caravan, ER-2 - AFRC, Ikhana, DC-8 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Imagery | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 12 channels at 0.42-11.26 µm | 4 different configurations (see website for details). | ||||
Chicago Water Isotope Spectrometer | Chi-WIS | Benjamin Clouser (Mgr) | U Chicago | WB-57 - JSC | Spectrometer | H2O, HDO | ||||||||
Direct beam Irradiance Airborne Spectrometer | DIAS | Samuel R. Hall (PI) | NCAR | DC-8 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Aerosol, Optical Depth, O3 | Integrated slant column
| Solar tracking
| 280-650 nm | |||||
Enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator | eMAS | Steve Platnick (Co-I) | NASA GSFC | ER-2 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Imagery | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 6.25 Hz
| 36000 m (at 19.8 km)
| 50 m (at 19.8 km)
| 38 channels at 0.4649-14.18 µm | ||
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer | FTIR | Michael Coffey (PI) | NASA HQ | DC-8 - AFRC | Spectrometer | HCl, ClONO2, N2O, NO, NO2, HNO3, HF, CH4, C2H6, H2O, CO2, CF2Cl2, O3 | Integrated vertical column
| Upwards pointing but not directly upwards, Solar tracking
| 10 Hz
| 6 channels at 2-15 µm | ||||
GeoCAPE Airborne Spectrometer | GCAS | Scott Janz (PI) | NASA GSFC | B200 - LARC, WB-57 - JSC, Global Hawk - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC | Spectrometer | NO2, CH2O | Integrated vertical column
| Nadir (directly downwards), Cross-track scanning
| 2 Hz
| 300-900 nm | Air Quality (AQ) 304:520 nm; Ocean Color (OC) 460:900 nm | |||
Geostationary Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectrometer | GIFS | Sam Yee (PI) | JHU APL | P-3 Orion - WFF | Spectrometer | Cloud Thickness | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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Hawaii Group for Environmental Aerosol Research | HIGEAR | Antony Clarke (Co-I) | U Hawaii | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF | CN counter, Differential mobility, Laser absorption, Optical particle counter, Photometer, Spectrometer | Particle Absorption, CCN, Particle Scattering, Aerosol Size Distribution, Black Carbon | ||||||||
HyMap | HyMap | Terry Cocks (PI) | HyVista Corp | Cessna 402B, WB-57 - JSC | Spectrometer | Imagery | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 0.45-0.89 µm; 0.89-1.35 µm; 1.4-1.8 µm; 1.95-2.48 µm | VIS module | ||||
Hyperspectral Thermal Emissions Spectrometer | HyTES | Simon Hook (PI) | JPL | Twin Otter - GRC, Gulfstream III - LaRC, Gulfstream V - JSC | Spectrometer | Temperature | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 3590 m (at 4 km)
| 7 m (at 4 km)
| 7.5-12 µm | |||
Leonardo Airborne Simulator | LAS | Si-Chee Tsay (PI) | NASA GSFC | ER-2 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Imagery | ||||||||
mini-DOAS | mini-DOAS | Jochen Peter Stutz (PI) | UCLA | Global Hawk - AFRC | Spectrometer | BrO, NO2, O4 | Integrated slant column
| Limb scanning (angles: +1, 0, -1, -1.5, -2, -2.5, -3, -4, 5, -15)
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MODIS Airborne Simulator | MAS | James D. Jacobson Jr. (PI) | USRA | ER-2 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Imagery | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards), Cross-track scanning
| 6.25 Hz
| 36 m (at 20 km)
| 50 m (at 20 km)
| 9 channels at 445-970 nm; 16 channels at 1580-2400 nm; 16 channels at 3000-5450 nm; 9 channels at 8240-14550 nm | ||
MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator | MASTER | James D. Jacobson Jr. (Mgr) | USRA | B-200 - DOE - ARC, DC-8 - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC, P-3 Orion - WFF | Spectrometer | Imagery | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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Next-Generation Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer | AVIRIS-NG | Robert O. Green (PI) | JPL | ER-2 - AFRC, Twin Otter, Gulfstream III - LaRC, Gulfstream G-5 | Spectrometer | Imagery | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards), Cross-track scanning
| 100 Hz
| 4000 m (at 8 km)
| 8 m (at 8 km)
| 380-2510 nm | ||
Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer | PRISM | David Thompson (PI) | JPL | Twin Otter International, Gulfstream III - LaRC, ER-2 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Radiance, Ocean Color, Chlorophyll-a | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 168 Hz
| 350-1050 nm | ||||
Precipitation Imaging Probe | PIP | Andrew Heymsfield (PI) | NCAR | DC-8 - AFRC | Particle imager, Spectrometer | Particle size distribution | ||||||||
Pushbroom Imager for Cloud and Aerosol Research and Development - ARC | PICARD ARC | James D. Jacobson Jr. (PI) | USRA | ER-2 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Imagery | ||||||||
Pushbroom Imager for Cloud and Aerosol Research and Development - GSFC | PICARD GSFC | Kerry G. Meyer (PI) | NASA GSFC | ER-2 - AFRC | Spectrometer | Imagery | ||||||||
Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research | 4STAR | Meloe S. Kacenelenbogen (Co-I) | NASA ARC | P-3 Orion - WFF, C-130H - WFF, Convair 580 NRC, Gulfstream G-1 (DOE), DC-8 - AFRC | Spectrometer | NO2, O3, H2O, Spectral Aerosol Optical Depth, Aerosol Extinction Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Single Scattering Albedo, Aerosol Asymmetry Parameter, Aerosol Scattering phase function, Aerosol Size Distribution, Aerosol Complex Refractive Index, Cloud Optical Depth, Cloud droplet effective radius, Cloud Thermodynamic Phase, Cloud Liquid Water Content | Vertical profile
| Zenith (directly upwards), Upwards pointing but not directly upwards, Solar tracking (angles: The instrument can be pointed continuously around the full azimuth and over 270 degrees in elevation )
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